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Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell · Book 1

Heartsick

by Chelsea Cain

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9781594132742
Type
novel

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About this book

Heartsick launches the series in 2007, two years after Detective Archie Sheridan finally caught the Beauty Killer, Gretchen Lowell, who tortured him for ten days before inexplicably letting him live. Now addicted to the painkillers that got him through captivity, Sheridan is pulled back into an active case and forced to consult Lowell herself; the novel won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

Its place in Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell

Heartsick is book 1 in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series. It is followed by Sweetheart. See the full Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell reading order.

Detective Archie Sheridan spent years hunting the serial killer known as the Beauty Killer before she caught him instead, tortured him for ten days, and then -- inexplicably -- let him live and turned herself in. Chelsea Cain's series opens two years later in Heartsick (2007): Sheridan, addicted to the painkillers that got him through his captivity, is pulled back into an active case and finds he needs to consult the one person who understands the new killer's psychology best -- Gretchen Lowell herself, now his…

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